English noun: sabin | |||
1. | sabin (quantity) a unit of acoustic absorption equivalent to the absorption by a square foot of a surface that absorbs all incident sound | ||
Broader (hypernym) | absorption unit | ||
2. | Sabin (person) United States microbiologist (born in Poland) who developed the Sabin vaccine that is taken orally against poliomyelitis (born 1906) | ||
Synonyms | Albert Bruce Sabin, Albert Sabin | ||
Instance hypernym | microbiologist | ||